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Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?

340 points jbornhorst | 1 comments | 07 Mar 25 17:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.289s | source

I’m digging into an idea around eyeglasses, screen-time, and vision discomfort. If you wear prescription glasses but still get headaches, eye strain, or blurry vision after long screen days, I’d love to chat briefly (20–30 min).

Pure research, zero selling.

Interested? Drop a comment below or email me directly at jbornhorst [at] gmail.com. I’ll coordinate a convenient time to talk.

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jasode ◴[07 Mar 25 20:22 UTC] No.43294134[source]▶
The solution for me to eliminate headaches when working at computer screens was getting an extra set of intermediate distance glasses specifically for computer work. The "computer screen distance" of 3 ft is in between book-reading distance of 1 feet and driving distance 20'+ feet. I also avoid progressive lenses or high-index lenses for computer work. I commented about how arrived at this solution previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15375221

Reading glasses work fine when the screen is very close to your face such as a laptop screen. However if it's a separate monitor that's ~30 inches away, reading glasses are slightly blurry which can lead to eyestrain and headaches.

https://www.warbyparker.com/learn/wp-content/uploads/2023/04...

Look into it if you suspect it's a contributor to headaches: https://www.google.com/search?q=computer+glasses+%22intermed...

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1. cableshaft ◴[08 Mar 25 13:36 UTC] No.43300152[source]▶
I do the same. In fact I usually just wear the intermediate distance glasses all the time around the house, and only switch to my primary glasses when I leave the house. Considering I work from home that can mean that I wear my intermediate glasses almost all day long most days.

That almost seems to reduce eyestrain as well, at least for me, as they're still good enough to see everything (I can't read text across the room but I can halfway across the room), just not without some light blur on things, and I seem to have trained my brain to stop trying to focus on things, just let it stay in the blur (at least while I have my intermediate glasses on), and that seems to relax my eyes more.

But the intermediate glasses are super clear for when I'm on the computer, which is a good chunk of the day and where I really need to see nice and sharp, as I'm manipulating things with pixel precision at times (game ui, web ui, board game graphic design).